Gay Rights Movement Tackles Cultural Battle In The Deep South
Interesting approach. I'm curious how some of these "summer conversations" go and whether they're successful in creating inroads for LGBT rights in the deep South.
NPR
Gay Rights Movement Tackles Cultural Battle In The Deep South
by Debbie Elliott
August 20, 2014
(excerpt)
Summer Conversations
Gay rights activists are winning a legal battle to overturn state laws prohibiting same-sex unions, most recently in Virginia. Now the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign is opening a new front — a cultural campaign to win hearts and minds in a part of the country where they've met the strongest resistance: the Deep South.
Ricks hosts a small gathering where her friend Larry Best explains the grass-roots initiative, dubbed Project One America.
"Let's go to Arkansas, let's go to Mississippi, let's go to Alabama," Best says, "because if we can get equality there, then we've won America."
Human Rights Campaign has opened offices in those three states and is now sponsoring a series of "summer conversations" like this one.... MORE at http://www.npr.org/2014/08/20/341666832/gay-rights-movement-tackles-cultural-battle-in-the-deep-south